Hugh Dancy Quotes

Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.

It makes my skin crawl when people tell me, 'Don't worry, you'll get another series.' Their expectations have little to do with mine.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

People have to be realistic, or the dream just drags on.

You can't always get what you want.

I think a lot of people have unreasonable expectations because they never stop to consider what life actually has to offer them. They're always looking for some great epiphany from the skies. They never stop to consider the fact which human beings find hardest to recognize: "Maybe I'm not worthy of an epiphany.

People are not here to meet your expectations.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're not, they're disappointed.

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

Ever since I was a little child, I refused to see movies of books that I loved. Because you already know what Heidi looks like and she doesn't look like Shirley Temple.

I'd rather have people who are enthusiastic about what I'm doing than like, "Well, I thought we were going to a Miley Cyrus concert and now it's a strip show!"

I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

People aren't always what you want them to be

I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.

Sometimes I don't like people. And, you know, it doesn't bother me. The hard ones are when you really like somebody, really respect somebody and they make a mistake.

You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.

Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.

Maybe it was just me shorting myself to hedge my expectations. As a fan, I was excited about the project. If you look at the body of work for the people involved, I was excited about the project, but I didn't really know. There were people saying, "I think we're going to be part of something huge."

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

With people too, you constantly think, "If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better." They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.